Compounds classified as Designer Drugs have been synthesized for several decades. This is not a precise scientific term and should only be applied to those drugs that are synthesized from common chemicals and skillfully marketed under attractive, often exotic names. The ingredients used to create these drugs and their potency vary widely, due to the illegal labs and it is nearly impossible to know what, including dangerous contaminants, such as ephedrine or ketamine, are contained in the drugs -- leading to dangerous side effects (seizures, coma, and even death). Because of many designer drugs are novel or designed to evade detection, they can be overlooked or difficult to detect or characterize. The last decade has seen a proliferation of such substances, such that keeping abreast of this huge number of new drugs is a difficult task for forensic chemists and toxicologists. The last decade has seen a proliferation of such substances, commonly known as 'club drugs' due to their use in night clubs and at parties. Designer Drugs 2013 covers the entire range of known designer drugs up to December 2012. Compiled by a team originating from the Regional Departments of Criminal Investigation in Kiel, Hamburg, and Wiesbaden, Germany, Mass Spectra of Designer Drugs has been developed to help forensics and toxicology labs combat this epidemic. Approximately 70% of the compounds covered in the Designer Drugs do not appear in either NIST 2011 or the Wiley Registry of Mass Spectral Data, 10th Edition.
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Weight: 1g
Dimensions: 150 x 2500mm
Publication Date: 22 Mar 2016
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
Publication City/Country: Germany
Language: English
ISBN13: 9783527333448
About Peter Rösner
Peter Rosner (born 1944) studied Chemistry at the University of Kiel (Germany). In 1981 he became head of the toxicology department at the state agency of criminal investigation (Landeskriminalamt) in Kiel where he focuses on drug identification and structure elucidation with GC/MS methods. Since 1992 he has also been a lecturer for mass spectrometry at the University of Kiel. In 2005 Dr. Rosner received the Jean-Servais-Stas Award from the Society of Toxicological and Forensic Chemistry in honor of his outstanding work in forensic sciences. Thomas Junge (born 1959) studied Technical Chemistry at the University of Applied Science of Lubeck (Germany). Since 1985 he has been a specialist for daughter ion mass spectroscopy in the toxicology department at the Landeskriminalamt in Kiel. His contribution was essential in building a mass spectral daughter ion data base for the structure eludication of new designer drugs. Folker Westphal (born 1965) studied Chemistry at the Universities of Hannover and Kiel (Germany) and also holds a degree as Special Chemist for Toxicology from the University of Leipzig. From 1999 to 2004 he worked at the Institute of Legal Medicine in Kiel as forensic scientist. Since 2004 he is leader of the section Analysis of Drugs of Abuse and Forensic Toxicology at the Landeskriminalamt in Kiel. Giselher Fritschi (born 1944) studied Chemistry at the Universities of Mainz and Karlsruhe (Germany). After a postdoc year at the University of Marburg he joined the Bundesgesundheitsamt (Federal Health Office) in Frankfurt. In 1978 he changed to the Landeskriminalamt in Wiesbaden as forensic expert for toxicological analysis focusing on the structure elucidation of new designer drugs.